Memflation Is Eating Your 2027 IT Budget Before You Spend It
Gartner says IT spending grows 15% in 2027 while CIO budgets grow 3.7%. Most of the gap is supplier pricing. Here is how to split every budget line into price and volume.
Recent Posts
On February 1, 2027, Azure raises VM prices up to 17% in seven regions and ends exchanges on new reservations. The second change does more damage to your commitment strategy.
Your SaaS Portfolio Stopped Growing. The Bill Climbed 8% Anyway.
App counts flattened in 2026, but SaaS spend still rose 8%. The cost driver moved from app sprawl to consumption pricing and AI feature charges.
OpenAI halved GPT-6 token prices on September 22. A list-price cut rarely flows straight through to your AI bill. Here is where the savings go missing and what to do about it.
Azure OpenAI’s Flex Tier Cuts Token Costs 50%. It Has No Safety Net.
Azure OpenAI's new Flex tier bills tokens at half the Standard rate for latency-tolerant work. The discount is real; keeping it depends on a routing decision no API makes for you.
Microsoft Turns On Copilot’s Usage Meter by Default October 19, and Your Budget Alert Won’t Cap It
Starting October 19, new Microsoft 365 Copilot Business seats arrive with usage-based billing switched on by default. The Copilot Studio meter bills to your Azure subscription, where a budget alerts...